Zwicky is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
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Arnold Zwicky, linguist
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Fay Zwicky
Fay Zwicky (4 July 1933 – 2 July 2017) was an Australian poet, short story writer, critic and academic primarily known for her autobiographical poem ''Kaddish'', which deals with her identity as a Jewish writer.
Life
Born Julia Fay Rosefield ...
(1933–2017), Australian poet and academic
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Fritz Zwicky
Fritz Zwicky (; ; February 14, 1898 – February 8, 1974) was a Swiss astronomer. He worked most of his life at the California Institute of Technology in the United States of America, where he made many important contributions in theoretical and ...
, astrophysicist who proposed dark matter, or objects named after him:
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Zwicky (crater), crater on the moon
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1803 Zwicky
1803 Zwicky, '' prov. designation'': , is a stony Phocaea asteroid and binary system from the inner regions of the asteroid belt, approximately in diameter. It was discovered on 6 February 1967, by Swiss astronomer Paul Wild at Zimmerwald Obse ...
, asteroid
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Jan Zwicky, Canadian poet
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Rolf Zwicky (born 1957), Swiss sailor
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Tommy Zwicky, Danish journalist and television presenter
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